Marlowe and Vlad go to Perrusson, a village that abuts Loches in Touraine, for a 12km walk. Vlad tells the strange tale of what was found under the church flooring during renovation work, before referring to a carpenter-writer, Maurice Mardelle, who lived here. Then Vlad reads Mardelle’s text describing daily life in Perrusson at the dawn of the twentieth century. The dialogue between past and present continues when they chance on an old ramshackle farm that’s apparently abandoned. But, as Vlad says, nothing is ever really abandoned around here…